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Friday, November 16, 2012

Our Little Town

Today I am grateful for a beautiful, safe place to raise my family. Yes, sometimes, I will admit, I dream of warmer locations. The winter is way too long for me here. But the spring and summer and fall where I live is absolutely gorgeous and our small little town is right out of a Norman Rockwell print. I have the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker all within walking distance from my home. (Not really those places but you know what I mean.) Our neighbors, our little street, is just perfect. Quiet, but friendly, helpful but not nosey. What more could you ask for?

I love your town too! I've followed your blog long enough to see the charm that you describe. Don't know where it is, but it seems like a wonderful place! I live in a charming neighborhood too. With everything within walkable distance too. Parks, a market, pharmacy, salon and more. Charming old homes that people take pride in fixing up and huge old trees that line streets and overlap the road. The only thing we don't have is that big beautiful yard that you do. Our town is too close to our big city.

I know that this isn't the first time I've wanted to move to your town just from your description. Love your town posts!!

I've lived in Florida for 17 years and I miss having 4 distinct seasons. I really miss autumn the most. I don't miss driving in ice and snow so much, but I do miss the crisp air and changing leaves and the smell of fireplaces in the fall. Your town is beautiful and so is your family!

I never comment, but I'm a faithful reader. I feel like you live in a real-life Starrs Hollow...the setting of Gilmore Girls...or even that you live back in time. I dream of living in a place like this someday (I'm still unmarried, just started teaching, in my 20s), although, since I do not know you in real life, I have no idea where it is! Thanks for sharing the beauty of life in this town with us lucky readers! :)

When our first baby was placed in my arms I knew there was no place I wanted to be other than home with him every day. Twenty years, and five more babies later, (six children, now ages 20-2), I still feel the same. I can’t imagine a more challenging, fulfilling, rewarding “job” than being a mom. It truly is a vocation, and I feel blessed beyond measure.